Okay, who here works for Chicago Channel 23 and played that Carol Burnett parody last night?
Oooo, this thread is very timely. We don’t have cable, and so wouldn’t have been able to watch it last night. However, we were just invited by a film-savvy couple of our acquaintance to go see Double Indemnity this Friday up on the big screen – one of our local art house theatres is showing it this! week! only!
I’ve never seen it, but now I’m looking forward to it even more.
Yes, I watched (my wife had never seen it - she’s lead a sheltered life). We also watched The Postman Always Rings Twice and agreed that we would love to end up in compromising positions with John Garfield and Lana Turner (or rather, *would * have liked to…our kinks are pretty wide ranging but don’t get over as far as necrophilia).
Damn! I haven’t seen it since it first ran. Why don’t they release her movie parodies on video?
Cop: “We found your husband’s body sticking out of a tuba at the Rose Bowl game with seven bullets in his back and a mouthful of Chinese checkers. We think it’s an accident.”
Ooooh, you are so lucky, seeing for the first time on the big screen!
Then, you gotta go find the book.
And as far as Fred McMurray is concerned, he was a great saxophone player in his early days, and rumor has it that he ended up as one of the wealthiest men in Hollywood through a combination of a series of very well executed real estate deals and being one of the stingiest men on the planet.
My favorite film noir is Laura. Beautiful cinematography and a lovely Gene Tierney and a very oily, slithering Clifton Webb.
:smack: Sorry about that. I thought it was still in print since I bought my copy (at Borders) just a couple of years ago. Must have been a fluke.
“The moon.”
Agreed! Oh man I forgot about that ending. So beautifully nuanced. Nobody put you on a faster, meaner bullet train than Cain. (That being said, I’ve yet to make it through Mildred Pierce.)
Only nitpick I had with Wilder’s Double Indemnity was the smattering of arch “babies” in Fred MacMurray’s lines, courtesy of one Raymond Chandler. Er, say Ray, you realize the guy’s name isn’t “Marlowe,” right?
Did any of it sound like “The son of a [unintellgible] stole my watch!”